January 19 - 23, 2026

United in Black Day Monday, January 20, 2025

On Monday, January 19th, the schools in the OCSB are participating in United in Black Day (formerly Black Shirt Day). Students and staff are invited to wear black and use the opportunity to raise awareness about anti-Black racism (and racism in all its forms), raise the profile of the systemic barriers that Black people have faced and continue to face within our school communities, and to speak up against racism wherever it shows itself. Your child is encouraged to wear a black shirt on Monday.

Our Learning This Week

Math:

The focus of our new Math unit in Grade 2 will be on geometry, specifically on 2-D shapes (polygons). We will explore how to describe 2-D shapes using their geometric properties (e.g., sides, corners/vertices, angles). 

Link to Parent Letter Explaining How to Describe 2-D Shapes

In Grade 3, we will review the strategies for adding and subtracting 2-digit and 3-digit numbers using the standard algorithms with and without regrouping. The Grade 3s will an assessment of their learning in addition and subtraction later this week.

Our next Math focus in Grade 3 will be on geometry, specifically on 3-D solids. We will be exploring how we can describe 3-D solids, including their properties (e.g., faces, edges, vertices, angles). We will also examine the meaning of the term congruent (congruence).

Link to Geometry Vocabulary To Know for Grade 3 here

Link to MathUP Parent Letter Explaining How To Describe 3-D Objects

Language:

Our reading comprehension focus continues to be an exploration of several features of non-fiction texts (e.g., table of contents, and we will learn more about headings, special font, photographs, diagrams, labels, captions, text boxes, maps, cut-outs/closeups, glossary, and index.

This week in our phonics lessons, we will learn about past tense verbs (used when we talk about actions that have already happened). We will explore the use of the ending -ED to verbs to make them past tense: I jump, I jumped. I yell, I yelled. 

This week's new heart words: many, any

Please have your child practise the heart words we have learned so far in class: the, I, a, said, to, do, of, see, he, be, me, from, you, what, have, look, book, are, was, your, want, go, no, so, goes, says, they, their, were, talk, walk, could, should, would, or, for, who, by, my, one, once, use, two, does, *any, *many.

Important Dates:

Mon., Jan. 19 - United in Black day - Wear a black shirt

Wed., Jan. 21 - Bell Let's Talk Day

Fri., Jan. 23 - Grade 2/3 library books due

Jan. 30 - P.D. Day: No school for students